How do you share changes made with Management Center between WebSphere Commerce developers?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14481531

17-01-2022
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Question

Example: I added new Marketing spot on some JSP page. I need to change JSP and create this spot in management center. Changes in JSP are shared through CVS, but what about Marketing Spot? It is stored somewhere in database, but I could not find solution to export this content properly neither with WCBD tool nor manually. What would you do in this case?

Thanks.

Solution

You have three options:

Manually re-create the requisite spot configuration in the other database.
Use a shared database for the development team. It is not as bad as it sounds, I have had my team use it in the past.
Use the export/import functionality. This is not recommended as the time you will spend trying to analyze all tables and dependencies may not be worth it.

OTHER TIPS

Are you trying to share across development instances? A shared dev instance is a good option as mentioned above. Also taking advantage of stageprop and staging copy could be a good answer. A quick trip to infocenter shows:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v7r0m0/topic/com.ibm.commerce.admin.doc/refs/rsscopy.htm

If you use the merchant table option it will copy changes to a store. Using this utility may require turning on stage logging in the staglog table.